I like the command-line. I’m forced to use #windows. #windowsterminalpreview is pretty nice. I have menu items for #gitbash, for #ubuntu under #wsl, for cmd.exe, for #powershell, #azure, and #anaconda. I do a little editing here in actual #Vim but mostly I use #PyCharm and #ideavim. I do all my #git commands in the terminal. Same with #pixi though in my situation it’s often convenient to use pixi from cmd.exe. This toot is a strong recommendation for Windows Terminal Preview.

#WindowsTerminalPreview v1.17 brings various features and bug fixes to Microsoft’s own #opensource terminal application.

Notable features include: Dropdown Menu Customization, Process Restart support & an improved color schemes page.

Learn more on #InfoQ: http://bit.ly/3jPlyCu

#dotnet #Windows #Microsoft #OperatingSystems

My current WeeChat setup

Since it's come up in conversation a couple of times in the past week (waves at @snowdusk__ and @yarmo), here's a #screenshot of my current #WeeChat setup (though with different buffers selected than my usual arrangement).

"What am I looking at on the screenshot?"

A buffer list ¹ on the left. Buffers represent the channels, private message streams and status timelines from the various chat media you are connected to.
Side the buffer list are a variety of horizontally and vertically panes, which @weechat called 'windows', each window showing the contents of one
² of the buffers.

"What buffers are visible in these window panes?"

From top left to bottom right these are:

• #sourcehut's water cooler IRC channel,
• #Twitter timeline, provided through the Twitter #libpurple plugin for #Bitlbee.
• #chanmon, a Perl script to display activity from all currently active (and monitored) buffers.
• #highmon, a Perl script to display highlights from all (highlight-monitored) buffers.
• Lobby #IRC channel, general discussion channel.
• #openMSX on #liberaChat IRC network, for discussions regarding the #MSX emulator I occasionally contribute to.
• #Twitch chat channel for #Kikoskia's stream, provided by setting up a Twitch OAuth token and connecting over their IRC-compatible interface along with twitch python script for stream status details.
• The #WeeChat IRC channel on #libera.

"What's making it work?"

All running in a #tmux terminal multiplexer session, running under #WSL2 on #Windows, in the #WindowsTerminalPreview #terminal client.

(Repost to fix an at-mention...)

Footnotes

¹ though I still use buffers.pl script rather than the built-in buflist plugin because I'm too lazy to migrate my settings to make it look and act in the way I've gotten used to.
² or more, as buffers can be merged, displaying the contents of each of the merged buffers chronologically in the same window pane.

Hashtags

#Battlestations #chat #chatClients #IRCClients #IRCClient #InternetRelayChat #MultiProtocol #FOSS #FLOSS

Ugh, #WindowsTerminalPreview still doesn't seem to support typographical bold...

#rant